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Safety Officials to Cities: Stop Buying Such Huge Trucks
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Some strategies to make large vehicles safer in urban environments and save lives.
Today’s Headlines
|- LA Mayor Garcetti talks a good climate-fight game, but does he mean it? (LA Times)
- Goleta city council votes to ban scooters (Noozhawk)
- Record rain, mudslides, snow, and road closures come to California (LA Times)
- CA high-speed rail year in review (Global Railway Review)
- Forum: Should Mt. Tamalpais allow e-bikes? (Bicycle Retailer)
- German town adds pedestrian signals featuring Elvis (The Things)
- Housing, housing, housing in the new CA legislative session (San Diego Union Tribune)
- California goes YIMBY (CityLab)
- LA Times editorial: Don’t develop Tejon Pass
- Minneapolis ends zoning for single-family housing, confronting its history of segregation (Slate)
- Highway funding goes out to:
- A roundabout in Lamont (Bakersfield Now)
- Highway upgrades, rehabilitations in San Diego (Times of San Diego)
- Highway 70 improvements in Oroville (Chico Enterprise-Record)
- Uninformed climate denier finds a way to blame unimplemented climate planning for CA’s housing shortage (SGV Tribune)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Early Legislative Roundup: A New Session Begins
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Some bills introduced in the new session's first week provide a glimpse into what legislators are thinking about, and what issues they plan to work on over the next two years.
Metro Approves Crenshaw/Green Line Operations Plan Pushed by Hahn, South Bay
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Farther-flung suburban interests won the day, to the detriment of core urban riders
SFMTA Plans Marina Subway Extension
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But with Central Subway opening far behind schedule, some question timing
Why Are We Still Waiting for Electric Buses?
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In China, fleets of super-efficient electric buses roam cities. In the U.S. we're just getting started.
Talking Headways Podcast: This is Not the TIF You’re Looking For
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Here's a podcast about how transit systems add value to communities.
Today’s Headlines
|- Sen. Weiner’s TOD bill is “gentler” but still controversial (CALmatters)
- Cities need to show climate progress with hard data (The Conversation)
- More recommendations for governor-elect Newsom (BerkeleyLaw)
- Sebastopol’s new electric downtown shuttle is free to ride (Press Democrat)
- Are e-bike and scooter startups benefiting everyone? (FastCompany)
- With 710 extension dead, there’s money available for other projects in Pasadena (Pasadena Now)
- Is it possible to design buildings and neighborhoods to be “climate positive”? (CityLab)
- Less parking could mean more housing (Voice of San Diego)
- Sprawl residents in Santa Clarita Valley are desperate about the congestion they cause (The Signal)
- Staff turnover, competition for labor, high costs lead to deterioration of Berkeley streets (Berkeleyside)
- Riding in a self-driving taxi (The Verge)
- Congress races to pass a self-driving-car bill (Wired)
- White House proposal to end tax credits for electric vehicles comes under fire (SmartCitiesDive)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Tampa Voters Supported Transit Measure — But Sore Losers Want to Overturn it
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Yet again, there's a Koch brothers connection.
Today’s Headlines
|- San Francisco makes the National Geographic list of “Top Ten Cities for Bicycling”
- An animated map of L.A. commutes (Curbed)
- New rental concept–“community rental units”–approved by Berkeley City Council (Berkeleyside, East Bay Times)
- Alameda considers scooters (East Bay Times)
- SFMTA approves pilot parking-protected bike lanes on Valencia Street (Curbed)
- San Diego approves $2.3m to close bike network gap under I-5 (San Diego Union Tribune)
- SF might build housing on top of its bus yard (Curbed)
- How slow lanes can speed new mobility options (Forbes)
- Waymo rolls out driverless taxis in Phoenix (East Bay Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF